ATHENS.-The Herakleidon Museum until November 21st 2010 presents the exhibition with the title: "Woman as Muse, 1900-1950". The exhibition showcases about ninety (90) works on paper  watercolors, prints and drawings of the first fifty years of the 20th century, by European artists (including Greeks). The works come from the Museums collection, the Greek National Gallery, the Alpha Bank Collection, as well as from the private collections of Mr. George Economou and Mr. Charalambos Leontiadis.

The Charalambos Leontiadis collection participates with the work "La Parisienne" by Dimitrios Galanis.

The female form has been an inspiration to artists of all ages and ethnic groups, dating back to antiquity. The exhibition Woman as Muse, 1900-1950 showcases works on paper by world renowned artists of modernism, depicting their varied interpretations of the female form and reflecting the prevailing artistic movements of their time. Woman is portrayed as mother, muse, lover, friend or confidante. She is alternately nurturing, beguiling, assertive or conspiratorial.